Publications

Improving Care for Seniors and Caregivers

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:00:00 GMT

Ensuring that seniors have access to the right care, at the right time and in the right place, the Seniors Care Strategy announced in Ontario’s Action Plan for Health Care will look at how to support seniors at home and reduce hospital readmissions and pressure on long-term care homes.

Having a pivotal role in caring for Ontario’s seniors, CCACs have submitted their recommendations to improve seniors’ care based on their collective experience in caring for over 300,000 seniors each year in the Senior’s Care Strategy submission:

Improving Care for Seniors and Caregivers

Bringing Value Home

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:00:00 GMT

Bringing Value Home, developed by Ontario's 14 Community Care Access Centres, identifies 5 actions that must be taken to ensure our health care system can meet access and quality of care needs of CCAC clients in today’s challenging economic environment.

Bringing Value Home

Retirement Homes Act Draft Regulations

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:00:00 GMT

The OACCAC and the OHA have jointly provided a submission to the Ontario Seniors Secretariat commenting on the first phase of proposed regulations under the Retirement Homes Act

Retirement Homes Act Draft Regulations

Valuing Home & Community Care

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT

The Province of Ontario has a stated policy goal of providing more health care at home and in the community. Significant public investment is being made in the home and community care sector through the Aging at Home initiatives, support for reducing ALC days in hospitals, redesign of patient flow within hospitals and into the community. To highlight the importance of home and community care as an essential component of a financially viable publicly-funded provincial healthcare system, working in partnership, we have conducted a study examining the economic value created by home and community-based healthcare in Ontario.

Bending the Health Care Cost Curve

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT

The Ontario Association of Community Care Access Centres (OACCAC), the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA), and the Ontario Federation of Community Mental Health and Addiction Programs (OFCMHAP) have collaborated to produce “Ideas and Opportunities for Bending the Health Care Cost Curve: Advice for the Government of Ontario”, a report presenting essential, practical strategies aimed at making Ontario’s health care system better and more sustainable. While the report’s recommendations are not exhaustive, they present rich opportunities that, if fully implemented, could have dramatic and significant cost savings for Ontario’s health care system.
Report

Client Safety Brochures

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:00:00 GMT

Your Health Care: Be Involved - Brochure
Your Health Care: Be Involved - Poster